WINDSOR, ON — After an untimely miscue cost her a Gold Final title seven days ago, three-year-old trotting filly Butana arrived at Windsor Raceway on Sunday evening looking to redeem herself with a strong showing in the Trillium Series season opener. Windsor fans opted to overlook last week's error and sent Butana off as their

LONDON, ON — Mark MacDonald engineered a pair of impressive victories in the three-year-old pacing filly Gold Series season opener at Western Fair Raceway on Friday evening. In the first $40,000 Gold Elimination, the Cambridge resident teamed up with Casie Coleman trainee Arts Star and gave the fan favourite a classic pocket steer to reach

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Elimination winner Parlay may be saddled with Post 10 in Monday's $130,000 Gold Final at Mohawk Racetrack, but trainer Ricky MacPhee does not expect the outside post will diminish the enthusiasm the three-year-old trotting colt brings to his work, or the joy he brings to his owners. "He's become a nice horse.

WINDSOR, ON — Windsor Raceway plays host to the first Trillium Series event of the 2009 Ontario Sires Stakes season this Sunday, May 24, sending 10 sophomore trotting fillies after a lucrative $70,007 purse. Trotting specialist John Bax will harness two fillies in the contest, Lunar Stream from Post 7 and Parkhill Fantasia from the

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Kevin O'Reilly's statement that Mystic River could be a sleeper in this season's three-year-old trotting filly division proved prophetic Sunday night, as the Kadabra daughter swept down the Mohawk Racetrack stretch to claim the first $130,000 Gold Final of the 2009 campaign. Second in her elimination last weekend, Mystic River started from

LONDON, ON — Western Fair Raceway rolls out the red carpet for the grand dames of the Ontario Sires Stakes program on Friday, May 22, hosting a pair of $40,000 Gold Eliminations for the talented three-year-old pacing fillies. Making her entrance onto the sophomore stage in the second elimination is local filly Northern Duchess, who

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — The Campbellville sky will be awash with a pyrotechnic glow this Sunday, but the on-track fireworks get under way well before dark as thirty-seven of the most talented sophomore trotters in Ontario clash in three $40,000 Gold Eliminations and a $130,000 Gold Final. Two of the three-year-old fillies making final preparations for

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Long winter months of work and anticipation paid off for the connections of Ontario's most gifted three-year-old trotting fillies on Sunday evening, as Mohawk Racetrack raised the curtain on the 2009 Ontario Sires Stakes season. A two-time Gold Final winner at two, Cumin First proved she lost none of her step over

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Bringing a freshman Gold Series champion back to form for their sophomore campaign is an inexact science, but trainer Frank O'Reilly feels he has done all he can to prepare a trio of three-year-old trotting fillies for the Sunday, May 10 Ontario Sires Stakes opener at Mohawk Racetrack. "I'm really pleased with

WINDSOR, ON — The freshman trotting fillies wrapped up their provincial season over a sloppy oval at Windsor Raceway on Sunday evening, but the connections of Youre Still Theone and Ldees Creditreport were smiling in spite of the rain. In the first $35,097 Trillium split, trainer Wayne Henry engineered a four and a half length